Why Hillary Clinton Might Have Made a Better President
By Matthew Rothschild, February 16, 2010
Has it ever crossed your mind that maybe Hillary Clinton might have made a better President than Barack Obama?
It’s sure crossed my mind a lot lately, as we’ve seen Obama flounder so badly on health care, on the bank bailout, on foreclosures, and on the jobs front.
Now I’ve got no brief for Hillary Clinton. She’s a centrist Democrat on domestic policy, and a very hawkish one on foreign policy. I wasn’t a big fan of hers during the primaries. I never cared for her politics. I was sick of the Clinton dramarama. And Obama at least held out the remote possibility of something better.
But I always admired her toughness, something that Obama has in such short supply.
And she would have had none of the foolishness about bipartisanship that Obama has had, foolishness that looks more and more like crippling naivete.